The fact remains, though, that large-scale strikes on civilian targets outside the Middle East are a rarity.
The pact is the latest in a series of state-sponsored agreements that have helped prevent large-scale strikes in Ireland since the 1980's.
Such fears of large-scale strikes remain unrealistic for now, but the strike plans by British Airways and Network Rail workers "do show a hardening of attitudes particularly in the transport industry," Howard Wheeldon, strategist at BGC Partners in London, said.
The demands led to demonstrations and large-scale strikes in both industry and agriculture throughout Finland.
The Germans repressed later large-scale strikes, though further important strikes occurred in November 1942 and February 1943.
During the ensuing months the communists tried repeatedly to seize power in Stuttgart and other cities in Württemberg through armed rebellion, accompanied by large-scale strikes.
After the Bosnian Serbs rejected the Vance-Owen Plan on 6 May 1993, Clinton and other US officials intensified these calls and they discussed the possibility of using large-scale strikes to coerce the Serbs into acceptance.
The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) said that it was closely monitoring the situation and had issued guidance to forces on dealing with large-scale strike action.
A large-scale strike took place in Sweden in 1902 over similar issues and was followed by one in Italy in 1904 protesting the use of soldiers as strikebreakers.
It conducts a little more than 30 attacks a week, carries out a large-scale strike every four to six weeks, and has expanded its efforts to recruit Iraqis, leading to a significant increase in the number of Iraqi-born suicide bombers.
The magmatic hydrothermal REE systems were controlled by Cenozoic large-scale strike-slip faulting and the resultant tensional fissure zones, developed in a transform phase from a transpressional to a transtensional regime.
